released. These expressions refer to the
fact that on grand pianos the "soft pedal" when depressed moves the
hammers to one side so that instead of striking three strings they
strike only two (in the older pianos only one, hence _una corda_), all
three strings (_tre corde_) being struck again after the release of the
pedal.

130. Other terms relating either directly or indirectly to the subject
of dynamics are:

_Con alcuna licenza_--with some degree of license.

_Con amore_--with tenderness.

_Con bravura_--with boldness.

_Con celerita_--with rapidity.

_Con delicato_--with delicacy.

_Con energico_--with energy.

_Con espressione_--with expression.

_Con forza_--with force.

_Con fuoco_--with fire and passion.

_Con grand' espressione_--with great expression.

_Con grazia_--with grace.

_Con melinconia_--with melancholy. [Transcriber's Note:
archaic form of "malinconia".]

_Con passione_--with passion.

_Con spirito_--with spirit.

_Con tenerezza_--with tenderness.

_Delicato_--delicately.

_Dolce_--sweetly, gently.

_Dolcissimo_--most sweetly.

_Dolce e cantabile_--gently and with singing tone.

_Dolente_ }
_Doloroso_ } plaintively or sorrowfully.

_Espressivo_--expressively.

_Grandioso_--grandly, pompously.

_Grazioso_--gracefully.

_Giocoso_--humorously, (cf. jocose).

_Giojoso_--joyfully, (cf. joyous).

_Lacrimando_, _lacrimoso_--sorrowfully.

_Legato_--smoothly.

_Leggiero_--lightly.

_Leggierissimo_--most lightly; almost a staccato.

_Lusingando_--caressingly, coaxingly, tenderly.

_Maesta_, _maestoso_--majestically.

_Martellando_, _martellato_--strongly accented,
(lit.--hammered).

_Marziale_--martial--war-like.

_Mesto_--pensively.

_Mezzo voce_--with half voice.

_Misterioso_--mysteriously.

_Parlando_--well accented or enunciated; applied to melody
playing. (The word parlando means literally-speaking.)

_Pastorale_--in simple and unaffected style, (lit.--pastoral,
rural).

_Pomposo_--pompously.

_Precipitoso_--precipitously.

_Recitativo_--well enunciated. (This meaning applies only in
instrumental music in which a melody is to stand out above the
accompaniment. For def. of recitative in vocal music, see p.